Tests and Measurement in Psychology Review Questions
Course Introduction
Tests and Measurement in Psychology explores the principles, techniques, and applications of psychological assessment. This course covers the development, administration, scoring, and interpretation of various psychological tests, including intelligence, personality, aptitude, and achievement assessments. Emphasis is placed on concepts such as reliability, validity, standardization, and ethical considerations in testing. Students will learn how to evaluate the quality of tests, use statistical techniques to interpret test results, and understand the cultural and social implications of psychological measurement. The course is essential for those interested in research, clinical practice, and educational settings where evidence-based assessment is critical.
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Psychological Testing and Assessment An Introduction to Tests and Measurement 9th Edition by
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Chapter 1: Psychological Testing and Assessment
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Q1) The use of evaluative tools to draw conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as those aspects existed at some point in time in the past is called
A) retroactive assessment.
B) remote assessment.
C) reactive assessment.
D) retrospective assessment.
Answer: D
Q2) Testing is to assessment as _____________ is to ________________.
A) blood test; physical exam
B) blood test; X-ray
C) mechanic; automobile
D) selection; placement
Answer: A
Q3) A psychological test almost always involves an analysis of A) attitude and values.
B) motivation and interests.
C) a sample of behavior.
D) All of these
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Historical, Cultural, and Legalethical
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Q1) How did the work of Wundt differ from that of Galton,Binet,and James McKeen Cattell?
A) Wundt used standardized psychological tests.
B) Wundt utilized humans and not animal research subjects.
C) Wundt focused on how individuals were the same rather than different.
D) Wundt focused on how individuals were different rather than the same.
Answer: C
Q2) Ability tests developed using samples of White testtakers cannot be used to track African-American students in the school system.This was the essence of the ruling in which of the following court cases?
A) Griggs v. Duke Power Company (1971)
B) Larry P. v. Riles (1979)
C) Debra P. v. Turlington (1981)
D) Hobson v. Hanson (1967)
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: A Statistics Refresher
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Q1) If few scores fall on the negative side of the distribution,the distribution is ________ skewed.
A) positively
B) negatively
C) symmetrically
D) asymmetrically
Answer: B
Q2) Today,when someone tells you what their recently measured "IQ" is,the value quoted is most likely
A) a standard score.
B) a z-score.
C) a T-score.
D) a quotient.
Answer: A
Q3) A frequency distribution typically includes
A) the average score and a measure of diversion around it.
B) each possible score and how often it occurs.
C) an estimate of how spread out the scores are.
D) an index of how "popular" a particular frequency is.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Of Tests and Testing
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Q1) A test that yields information about a testtaker's relative standing in a group is referred to as
A) criterion-referenced.
B) norm-referenced.
C) standard-referenced.
D) None of these
Q2) Sampling all different subgroups within a population is an example of A) random sampling.
B) stratified sampling.
C) incidental sampling.
D) purposive sampling.
Q3) A typical variable of interest in developing contemporary national norms is A) ethnic background.
B) member/non-member of Lady GaGa fan club.
C) owner/non-owner of smart phone.
D) None of these.
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Chapter 5: Reliability
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Q1) If traditional measures of reliability are applied to a criterion-referenced test,the reliability estimate will likely be
A) spuriously low.
B) spuriously high.
C) exactly zero.
D) None of these
Q2) Generally,diagnostic reliability is necessary.However,which of the following is NOT a reason that diagnostic reliability is necessary?
A) It is necessary for accurate diagnosis.
B) It is necessary for any double-blind study.
C) It is necessary to determine the effectiveness of treatments.
D) It is necessary to track changes in a disorder over time.
Q3) Which of the following might lead to a decrease in test-retest reliability?
A) the passage of time between the two administrations of the test.
B) coaching designed to increase test scores between the two administrations of the test.
C) practice with similar test materials between the two administrations of the test.
D) All of these
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Q1) Comedian Rodney Dangerfield was cited in the text to illustrate a point about how which of the following is viewed?
A) test validation
B) content validity
C) face validity
D) construct validity
Q2) Messick is to unitarian as __________ is to trinitarian.
A) Cronbach
B) Lawshe
C) Landy
D) Dangerfield
Q3) Which of the following is NOT included in the traditional "trinitarian" conceptualization of validity?
A) face validity
B) content validity
C) construct validity
D) criterion-related validity
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Chapter 7: Utility
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Q1) Which is an example of a false positive in the context of employee selection?
A) hired applicants who scored at or above the cut-off score on the employment test went on to fail on the job
B) hired applicants who scored at or above the cut-off score on the employment test went on to succeed on the job
C) rejected applicants who scored below the cut-off score on the employment test were rejected but would have gone on to succeed on the job had they been given a chance
D) rejected applicants who scored below the cut-off score on the employment test were rejected but went on to succeed at another, totally different job
Q2) "It's a method of setting cut scores that relies heavily on judgments made by experts." Which of the following is BEST described by this statement?
A) the known groups method
B) the Angoff method
C) discriminant analysis
D) the Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser method
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Chapter 8: Test Development
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Q1) Who is best associated with the development of the scaling methodology?
A) Galton
B) Cohen
C) Spearman
D) Thurstone
Q2) The idea for a new test may come from
A) social need.
B) review of the available literature.
C) common sense appeal.
D) All of these
Q3) The Likert scale is an example of which type of rating scale?
A) categorical
B) paired methods
C) summative
D) content
Q4) An item-difficulty index of 1 occurs when
A) all examinees answer the item incorrectly.
B) all examinees answer the item correctly.
C) examinees are evenly divided between correct and incorrect responses.
D) None of these
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and Its Measurement
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Q1) On the Wechsler tests,which of the following subtests BEST reflects and predicts overall intelligence?
A) the Coding subtest
B) the Arithmetic subtest
C) the Block Design subtest
D) the Vocabulary subtest
Q2) The WASI was created mainly so that
A) test users could have a short form of the Wechsler scales with sound psychometric properties.
B) test users could have a sound measure of emotional intelligence for use with children with handicapping conditions.
C) children from diverse backgrounds could be given language-free intelligence tests.
D) the low reliability of the WISC-V could be corrected by a test with approximately twice the number of items.
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Chapter 10: Assessment for Education
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Q1) The K-ABC was designed to measure
A) achievement.
B) intelligence.
C) both achievement and intelligence.
D) general aptitude.
Q2) Data derived from standardized educational tests
A) can be used in the service of better allocating school resources.
B) will not prevent teachers from teaching students material that they already know. C) is useful in motivating students to be challenged by new material.
D) None of these
Q3) An approach to discovering a student's learning potential based on a model of testing-intervention-retesting is referred to as
A) integrative assessment.
B) dynamic assessment.
C) authentic assessment.
D) biopsychosocial assessment.
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Chapter 11: Personality Assessment: an Overview
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Q1) The BEST method for identifying a rater's possible bias in scoring subjective content would entail having the rater
A) comment on the scoring of other raters.
B) read each scoring instruction aloud and comment on each.
C) verbalize thought processes associated with scoring each item.
D) over for brunch and casually ease the conversation towards scoring practices.
Q2) The term psychasthenia,as used in the 1930s when the MMPI was developed,was MOST closely related in meaning to what is now known as
A) paranoid schizophrenia.
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
C) suicidal tendencies.
D) borderline personality disorder.
Q3) What is a likely consequence if a rating checklist consistently elicits a wide-ranging variety of opinions from various raters?
A) The test will have little utility.
B) The test will have high internal consistency.
C) The test will have lower inter-rater reliability.
D) All of these
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Chapter 12: Personality Assessment Methods
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Q1) A teacher reports that a fifth-grader has been misbehaving in class.The school principal comes into the class to observe and the child behaves "like a model student." The effect of the principal's presence is BEST associated with
A) the term, "observer bias."
B) the word, "analogue."
C) the word, "reactivity."
D) the question, "Do you want to be held back and next year again be, a fifth-grader?"
Q2) The timeline-followback procedure is essentially a behavioral record
A) of the "here and now."
B) that gauges duration.
C) of the past.
D) that is future-oriented.
Q3) A device that could be characterized as "auditory inkblots" was developed by A)Carl Rogers.
B)B.F.Skinner.
C)Harry Stack Sullivan.
D)Wayne Holtzman.
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Chapter 13: Clinical and Counseling Assessment
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Q1) The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia is an example of
A) an unstructured clinical interview.
B) a structured clinical interview.
C) a projective test.
D) an objective personality test.
Q2) A problem with self-report measures of depression,such as the Beck Depression Inventory,is that
A) testtakers can fake depression or fake the absence of depression.
B) they are highly unreliable and based solely on what happened to the testtaker during the previous day or so.
C) they do not gauge the severity of depression, only its presence or absence.
D) the theory on which they are based has been shown to be severely flawed.
Q3) Instruments used to screen for depression are
A) routinely administered to prospective contestants on Match Game.
B) valuable only in detecting manic-depressive disorder.
C) exclusively validated on introductory psychology students.
D) None of these
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Chapter 14: Neuropsychological Assessment
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Q1) Possible problems reported by Parkinson's patients include A) stiffness in the limbs or facial muscles.
B) issues with swallowing and salivation.
C) excessive, unexplained sweating.
D) All of these
Q2) According to Dr.Eric Kramer,a particular protein deposit in the blood vessels or the nerve cells that may act as a marker for senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type is called A) a suetoxin.
B) an edithalid.
C) a jentinen.
D) an amyloid.
Q3) If damage from an infection was limited to a deficit in the sense of smell,this deficit could BEST be attributed to a A) contralateral defect.
B) diffuse lesion.
C) focal lesion.
D) cerebral hemorrhage.
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Chapter 15: Assessment,Careers,and Business
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Q1) Perhaps the most widely used form of survey research is
A) the face-to-face personal interview.
B) the telephone interview.
C) the mail questionnaire.
D) the fax questionnaire.
Q2) Juan chooses a career as an elementary school teacher because he wants to play a meaningful role in the lives of developing children.Esmerelda chooses a career as an elementary school teacher because of the good pay and the fact that she has her summer off.Which is MOST likely TRUE?
A) Juan exhibited extrinsic motivation and Esmerelda exhibited intrinsic motivation.
B) Esmerelda exhibited extrinsic motivation, and Juan exhibited intrinsic motivation.
C) The deciding factor in both decisions was probably the actual location of the school to which they were assigned.
D) Juan will most likely experience burnout before Esmerelda does.
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